Sentence examples for substantial faction from inspiring English sources

He had no substantial faction to back him.

But real estate executives and a partner at the firm said that Pillsbury Winthrop was negotiating the terms of a deal for about 200,000 square feet with Boston Properties and that a "substantial faction" at the firm favored the move uptown.

And there is a substantial faction within the party that believes no deal would be better than a deal that fails to meet the majority of Syriza's election promises.

Another substantial faction supported Ted Cruz, even though many Washington Republicans dislike him so much that they were willing to play footsie with Trump back in January.

But in Russia, there is an influential and substantial faction that has come to believe that the West is planning a devastating hybrid military and economic war against it.

"He [Poroshenko] had to do it this way because there are substantial factions in the government that are blocking reform and that do not want elections," he said.

He was dismissed, rather, because he led a substantial English faction opposed to the favours William bestowed on his Dutch associates.

Although President Barack Obama's home state is expected to support him in 2012 as it did in 2008, GOP hopefuls are zeroing in on the blue state's substantial conservative faction downstate.

The French Revolution had inspired similarly-minded revolutionaries in Italy to support Republican ideas, and there was a substantial Republican faction in the Genoese government which supported France's cause.

Observers and opposition leaders questioned the integrity of the parliamentary elections in 2003 and 2007, claiming that fraud and gerrymandering had been used to disenfranchise Palestinian Jordanian voters, thus ensuring that Jordan's pro-government faction retained substantial majorities in the House of Representatives (Majlis al-Nuwwāb).

Under Wałęsa's leadership, Solidarity decided to pursue a peaceful solution, and the pro-violence faction never attained any substantial power, nor did it take any action.